• WriteSite (CUNY)
  This is the homepage of CUNY's extensive and well-designed site for student writers. It's worth exploring and compares favorably to other university writing sites, such as Purdue's large construction. http://writesite.cuny.edu/nsindex.html
  • Grammar Reference - CUNY WriteSite
    A comprehensive, well-laid out index of grammar errors, CUNY's grammar page links you to understandable, simple explanations of common and less common errors, provides exercises and accompanying answers to the exercises. This grammar page is a good supplement to texts in College Writing 121 and 122 (particularly the latter) as well as literature courses for which there is no grammar handbook. http://writesite.cuny.edu/grammar/general/index.html
  • Writers' Tools and References - Net Library - CUNY WriteSite.
    http://writesite.cuny.edu/netlibrary/writerstools/index.html

• Purdue University's OWL Writing Site
  This is a full-service site, located at http://owl.English.purdue.edu, created for Purdue's students and faculty but offering many features for non-Purdueans:
  • English as a Second Language (such as writing for an American audience and help with English conventions)
  • General writing concerns (the writing process),
  • Grammar, spelling, and punctuation
  • Professional writing (such as resumes and cover letters)
  • Research and documenting sources (including MLA and APA styles)
  • Writing across the curriculum (incorporating writing into a variety of disciplines)

• Rhetoric and Composition
  Dwelling at http://eserver.org/rhetoric, this site describes its purpose as follows:
  

  "This Web page is intended to list a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians. While many rhetoric and composition pages on the Web are written in conjunction with writing centers or specialize in computer-mediated communication, this page also has links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, and a few miscellaneous but useful things--how to suscribe to some highly-trafficked mailing lists and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms, for example."

• Basic Guide to Essay Writing
  Nothing particularly stellar is at this site except a nicely laid out format and simple discussion, with step by step prompting of how to write a basic essay. It seems directed at high school students, with a vocabulary appropriate to that level. http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay

Author Sites

Babel, Isaac | Baldwin, James | Cheever, John | Chopin, Kate | Crane, Stephen | Ellison, Ralph | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |Hemingway, Earnest | Joyce, James | Malamud, Bernard | O'Conner, Flannery | Olsen, Tillie | Paley, Grace | Steinbeck, John |Tan, Amy | Welty, Eudora |Williams, Tennessee | Williams, William Carlos

Babel, Isaac

• Babel's Russian Historical Context
  "The Conception of the Individual of the Bolsheviks and Their Opposition; 1917-1921" by Jesse Dukes. This is an academic article, giving general background, with references to Babel and other Russian writers of the period. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pcm9s/HIEU401C/drafts/Dukes.htm

• Audio of Babel's 'My First Goose' from JEWISH SHORT STORIES .
  Site contains numerous audio files of stories by Jewish authors. http://www.kcrw.org/b/jss.html

Baldwin, James

• James Baldwin: An Appreciation.
  A comprehensive but digestible overview of Baldwin's life, work, and historical context. Written in 1995 by John Stevenson for Boston Book Review. http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/interviews/baldwin.html

• James Baldwin site for Teachers.
  This site offers classroom ideas, lessons, topics for discussion on Baldwin's writing. Designed for high school and lower level college courses. http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/baldwin.html

John Cheever

• John Cheever
  Part of the Books and Writers series, this site offers a biography with links. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cheever.htm
  
• John Cheever: "Parody and the Suburban Aesthetic"
  This site by John Dyer, a scholar of Cheever's work, presents chapters from an unpublished manuscript. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA95/dyer/contents.html
• John Cheever from Encarta encyclopedia.
  This is a simple site with brief biography. http://encarta.msn.com/find/concise.sap?ti=00E1D000

Chopin, Kate

• Chopin on Empirezine.
  This site is part of an on-line journal,Empire:ZINE, devoted to writing; the Chopin page, by Christina Ker, has a biography and links.
• http://www.lpb.org/programs/katechopin
  This full-production site, sponsored by the National Foundation for the Humanities, focuses on The Awakening with audio clips, video, biography, works and much more.

Crane, Stephen

• Stephen Crane site, comprehensive, with links.
  This site, put together for a course at the U. of Texas, has a biography, audio clips, photos, and links to papers and articles about Crane. It seems appropriate for high school or lower level college students. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Crane/crane.html

Ellison, Ralph

• "The American 1950's"
  The homepage on a literature course at U Penn. Includes some very useful reviews of Invisible Man(by Howe, Bellow, and Kaiser among others) as well as a short chapter summary. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ellison-main.html
  
• Ellison
  A paragraph on Ellison's technique for transcribing African-American idiom. Part of the Library of Congress project, "Voices from the Thirties." http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/intro12.html
  
• Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
  An extensive collection of student essays relating to all aspects of the novel, including biography, historical contexts, and critical commentary. http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/intro12.html
  
• Obituary: Invincible Man
  An obituary by Richard Corliss for Time. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940425/940425.obituary.html
  
• Ralph Ellison
  Short biography, some critical quotations, and links to other sites. http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ellison.htm
  
• Ralph Ellison
  Links to other web resources relating to Ellison. A particularly useful collection of critical and student essays. http://ucl.broward.cc.fl.us/writers/ellison.htm
  

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• Feature Stories
  A rotating series of short stories by Fitzgerald in HTML format. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/writings.html
  
• Fitzgerald Biographical Information
  A short biographical timeline with links to a number of different works. http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/collections/fitztime.html
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial Homepage
  A very useful and complete page sponsored by the 1996 centennial celebration of Fitzgerald at the University of South Carolina. It contains a biography, a bibliography, a chronology of the life, a series of quotations, and the text of some of the short stories. In addition there are links to a few critical essays and additional information about the USC Fitzgerald collection. A slow download speed hinders one's use of this site. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
  Bryant Mangum Symposium Paper
  Essay and sample selections from Bryant Mangum's A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.has.vcu.edu/eng/symp/man_txt.htm
  
• The Great Gatsby Website
  A useful site which provides a summary of the novel, vocabulary lists, trivia questions, biographical information, and links to critical essays. http://www.geocities.com/andrew_dilling/
  
• Guide to the Great Gatsby
  Links to a great deal of useful information, including cultural background, critical essays, and other on-line guides. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1104/
  
• Great Gatsby
  Provides information about characters, chapter summaries, and rudimentary thematic analysis. Basically on-line Cliff Notes. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/2221/english/greatgatsby/
  
• Long Island--Mansions and Gardens
  Although not directly related to Fitzgerald, this link to the Gardens and Mansions of Long Island contains small images of the mansions of the Jazz Age. http://www.webscope.com/li/mg.html
  

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• Hawthorne
  This is the site for Hawthorne with links to EVERYTHING you could ever need. With on-line editions of many works, appreciations by contemporaries, biography, chronology, etc. http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html
  

Hemingway, Earnest

• IMS: Ernest Hemingway, Harper Audio
  This site includes numerous sound files of Hemingway reading from a "work in progress" and describing the plot of In Harry's Bar in Venice as well as an excerpt from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. It also has files of Charlton Heston reading The Snows of Kilimanjaro. http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/012494_harp_ITH.html
  
• A Clean, Well Lighted Place
  A link to the text of the short story produced by Anamorph. http://www.anamorph.com/docs/meta/clean.html
  
• Hemingway Stories, The Kansas City Star
  A potentially useful ink to the text of the stories that Hemingway most likely wrote for the Kansas City Star. http://kcsg3.kcstar.com/aboutstar/hemingway/hem1.htm
  
• The Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
  A page sponsored by the Hemingway birthplace and museum notable for its collection of downloadable photographs in the "gallery" link. These images take a great deal of time to download as thumbnails, but are relatively rapid as JPEG files. http://www.mcs.com/~wfisher/hemingway.htm
  
• The Papa Page
  This page contains a lengthy and relatively complete biographical essay complete with photographs. There is also a partial bibliography of Hemingway's texts and other critical materials as well as an extensive series of links to other web resources. Also of note is a link to photographs of some of the paintings collected by Hemingway, including those by Miro and Gris. http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/cover.html
  
• The University of Florida's Hemingway Collection
  An extensive collection of critical essays written by faculty and students at the University of Florida on Hemingway's novels. http://rio.atlantic.net/~gagne/hem/localhem.html
  
• The Hemingway Review
  A link to the journal's homepage which includes subscription information, selections from the current issue, and a brief selection of articles and bibliographies from the archives. http://www.dc.enews.com/magazines/hemingway/
  
• Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
  A useful site that contains links to the transcripts of various scholarly, on-line conversations about Hemingway and/or Fitzgerald. http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/sipiora/public_html/hemfitz.html
  
• Hemingway Filmography
  A filmography of Hemingway's works produced by the Internet Movie Database. http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Hemingway,+Ernest
  
• The Toronto Star--A Budding Writer Gets a Start
  An entertaining biographical essay about Hemingway's days at the newspaper. It is rather lengthy and contains numerous photographs. http://www.thestar.com/thestar/static/history/hemstart.html
  
• Review of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
  A very basic contemporary review of the story published by the electronic magazine Edge. http://www.webpress.net/jayi/Fishnet/Edge/Nov_Dec/Ernest.html
  
• Hemingway Haunts Tour
  An electronic tour of some of Hemingway's favorite places including Paris, Key West, Sun Valley, and Oak Park. This page contains numerous photos. http://204.122.127.50:80//wshs/tour.html
  

Joyce, James

• Joyce site.
  This site may be difficult to reach, but it is rather complete. www.as.miami.edu/english/jjls/joylink.htm
  

Malamud, Bernard

• Bernard Malamud site (comprehensive with links).
  This site originates from Japan, has a biography and useful links to articles written about Malamud, such as articles from the NY Times Book Review. http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/m/malamud21.htm
  

Flannery O'Conner

• O'Conner site.
  This one lists a a number of useful links to other O'Connor sites. http://www.ils.unc.edu/flannery/links.htm
  

Olsen, Tillie

• Tillie Olsen, comprehensive site with biography and links.
  Besides the biography, this site contains pedagogical materials. http://www.oakland.edu/~raphael/olsen.html
  
• Tillie Olsen, comprehensive site from Nebraska.
  Very good site with links to interview with the author. It includes a link to an interesting interview with the writer, who speaks of her Russian Jewish heritage. http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm

Paley, Grace

• Grace Paley: New York State site
  This site, set up to promote New York writers in general, offers a short biography of Paley along with a bibliography of her works. (No links) http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/paley.html
  
• Grace Paley New York Times site
  Contains links to reviews, articles, and audio readings (made by Paley herself). http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/19/specials/paley.html
  

Steinbeck, John

• Steinbeck Empire:ZINE site
  This is a remarkable, glitzy site, supremely complete. http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/steinbeck/stein-chron.htm

Tan, Amy

• Anniina's Amy Tan Page
  This is a very complete site with links to reviews, articles, audio, video and many other Amy Tan materials. http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan

Eudora Welty

• Eudora Welty site
  This is a very thorough site--biography, reviews, plots,etc. http://www.olemis.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/welty_eudora
• Welty site
  This is another recommended site. If you click on the pink, bold underlined links, you are taken to online texts. http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Welty.html

Williams, Tennessee

• Tennessee Williams site
  This is rather comprehensive with links and biography from "Ole Miss" University. http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html
  
• Tennessee Williams II
  A less comprehensive site from Japan. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2936/williams.html
  
• Tennessee Williams III
  This is a relatively minor site, part of a larger site on American writers. http://www.digitex.net/renard/williams.htm
  

Williams, William Carlos

• William Carlos Williams - The Academy of American Poets.
  This handsome site produced by the AAP gives a short biography, photos, audio readings, poems, and links. Its focus is mainly on the poetry. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=120
  
• Addison Wesley Longman, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Biography .
  Created by a textbook publisher, the site gives a brief biography in readable prose. http://longman.awl.com/kennedy/wcwilliams/biography.html
  
• Williams: short bio from Gale Group.
  Another biographical note written in fairly easy prose for undergraduates. http://www.gale.com/freresrc/poets_cn/wilmsbio.htm
  
• Williams' Life and Career--by M. L. Rosenthal.
  This site offers a substantial account of Williams' work. Rosenthal is a well-known critic, and the prose level is higher than that of the other sites but not unreachable for some students. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/bio.htm
  
• W.C. Williams site for Teachers.
  The site contains lesson ideas and thematic discussions for advanced high school and lower level college courses. http://www.college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/williamw.html
  
• W.C. Williams: article from Lancet on doctors as writers .
  This article by Anne Jones in Lancet usefully accompanies students' reading of "The Use of Force" and more generally treats the subject of doctors who write, writers who doctor. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0833/n9038_v348/18943213/print.jhtml
  

Author Sites

Babel, Isaac | Baldwin, James | Cheever, John | Chopin, Kate | Crane, Stephen | Ellison, Ralph | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |Hemingway, Earnest | Joyce, James | Malamud, Bernard | O'Conner, Flannery | Olsen, Tillie | Paley, Grace | Steinbeck, John |Tan, Amy | Welty, Eudora |Williams, Tennessee | Williams, William Carlos

Words, Etymologies, Idioms

• The alt.usage.english FAQ
  Alternate English Usage Frequently Asked Questions is maintained by Mark Israel. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/alt-usage-english-faq/faq.html

• The American Dialect Society home page. http://www.americandialect.org/index.shtml

• Churchyard's Anti-Pedantry Page
  This offers analysis such as "The Singular 'Their' in Jane Austen and Elsewhere."

• The King's English
  For advanced grammar advice, Columbia University's Project Bartleby has put H.W. and E.G. Fowler's classic online. http://www.bartleby.com

• The Mavens' Word of the Day
  This site, Evan Morris reports, "started out as Jesse Sheidlower's excellent site at Random House. Mr. Sheidlower was an Editor in the Reference division of Random House, where he specialized in slang and new words. Jesse has gone on to become North American Editor for the Oxford English Dictionary, but his creation lives on, now staffed by a tag-team of witty Random House dictionary editors." http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd

• Merriam-Webster online dictionary. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary

• Dave Wilton's Etymology Page includes a concise history of the English language and notes on common errors people make when trying to figure out the origins of English words. It also helpfully provides an alphabetical index dealing with the origins of many words and phrases. http://www.wilton.net/etyma1.htm

• The Word Detective: notes on language and etymology by Evan Morris.
  The site indexes more than 600 columns by word-detective Evan Morris, who explains unusual idioms and current metaphors, such as: "by and large" and "full of it." It's an entertaining and comprehensive site. http://word-detective.com/
  
• Wordplay
  This one links you to other sites that promise "fun with words." Author Judi Wolinsky assembled this voluminous series of links. http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm

• World Wide Words
  This site is regularly updated by Michael Quinion, who offers short essays on various word topics, including current slang. http://www.quinion.com/words
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